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If youre older you might want to think twice. If your partner becomes ill they will come after your assets too.
Ive seen this happen to an older couple who got married in their seventies cause the kids didnt want them living in sin. He got sick. She ended up paying for his care even tho they had been married less than one year.
If youre older you might want to think twice. If your partner becomes ill they will come after your assets too.
Ive seen this happen to an older couple who got married in their seventies cause the kids didnt want them living in sin. He got sick. She ended up paying for his care even tho they had been married less than one year.
You probably shouldn't get married at all, at any age, unless you're amenable to potentially seeing to one another's medical care should the need arise.
The only concern I ever really have about being in a long-term, cohabiting relationship vs. a marriage is that if my SO were to become seriously ill, hospitalized, if there were end-of-life type decisions to be made, etc. my involvement in his welfare would be seriously truncated/abridged due to not being his legal spouse, and that would be very troubling to me, given the length and seriousness of our relationship. Also that the reverse would be true for him, were I to become ill, etc. Domestic partners should have more rights, IMO.
Not living together before marriage is just silly. It's like a lucky dip, you never know what crappy toy you're going to get.
I think if people plan on having children it's nice to be married but otherwise why bother. Of course the laws in the US are different and not as equitable for cohabitating folks than in other countries.
I would never ever get married again if anything happened to my husband.
I was always raised to never live with someone unless you were married. Honestly I don't find this a problem because though I have heard from many people over the years that you should live with someone first to see if you're compatible for marriage, but I don't agree.
Unfortunately marriage is seen as somewhat a curse mostly because for the most part people marry for the wrong reasons--selfish desires or other similar issues.
I agree IF & when hell frezzes over I would move in with someone but not marry.
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